It lets up a bit when they start to warm up to her. Deadpan Snarker: Cye is very sarcastic and snarky towards Esther.Downplayed with Amity, whose sexuality is at first assumed to be lesbian and polyamorous until it's revealed she faked her relationship to Genevieve and Trace. Cast Full of Gay: All of the characters in the main group are lesbians or bisexual.Which, as Amity later points out to her, is probably exactly what the government who approves of these stories wants Esther and people like Esther to think. This left Esther with the mindset that she was a Doom Magnet because of her feelings towards other women and that Beatriz's death was a natural outcome of their relationship. Esther mentions several times that all the books she and Beatriz read about 'people like them' ended in tragedy, with the main characters either dying or being driven to madness.

Battle Couple: Leda and Bet, who have been through several skirmishes together.But Esther soon learns that there is more to the Librarians than meets the eye. She joins the Librarians, a group of hardened women who deliver the states' Approved Materials to rural settlements. In a far-off future where America has devolved to The Wild West, leading to a rise of white and male supremacy, young Esther escapes from her arranged marriage after her lover Beatriz is hanged for possession of Unapproved Material. It's the author's third published novella and was nominated for the 2020 Hugo Award for Best Novella and 2021 Locus Award for Best Novella. Upright Women Wanted is a 2020 Western Queer Romance novella by Sarah Gailey. Are you a coward? Or are you a Librarian?

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